Faith is to believe what you do not yet see: the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
JOHN DRYDENBeware of the fury of the patient man.
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Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.
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For those whom God to ruin has design’d, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
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Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
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Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
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Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
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Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass’d; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go; To make a third, she join’d the former two.
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Beware of the fury of the patient man.
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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
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Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow’s falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.
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But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires.
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Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.
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If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.
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Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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They, who would combat general authority with particular opinion, must first establish themselves a reputation of understanding better than other men.
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War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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The conscience of a people is their power.
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Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people’s wrongs his own.
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Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
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Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.
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Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
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The bravest men are subject most to chance.
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